Strategy Workshops

What We Offer

Strategy workshops are powerful because they help companies improve their strategic planning efforts by proactively anticipating competitor actions and market scenarios. We work directly with clients during one or two-day onsite sessions to facilitate business strategy games and scenario planning workshops. These sessions are great ways for employees from all functions to get together with their colleagues, and brainstorm ways to stay competitive in their markets.

Our Process

We start out by meeting with clients’ strategy teams to understand competitive threats or which scenarios they wish to explore.

Analysts develop briefing books with detailed competitor profiles for business strategy games, and scenarios for scenario planning, which the participants use to prepare for the workshops.

Participants work in breakout sessions where they either wear the hats of competitors or focus on specific scenarios in order to strategize about the best courses of action.

Post-workshop, we deliver a write-up with the proposed competitor strategies and scenario action plans, and provide recommendations for clients to incorporate in their strategic planning.

The Result

Business strategy games allow clients to play the role of decisions-makers at their top competitors. This leads to new insights about strengths, limitations, corporate culture, and other factors, and ultimately allows clients to formulate action plans. Scenario planning allows clients to explore a range of possible future scenarios that may pertain to a specific competitor or market, so they can develop strategies that address each scenario. Both types of strategy workshops give clients the intelligence needed to think outside the box and implement important business strategies.

To learn more about Strategy Workshops, please see the link below and read our case studies.

Case Studies

Financial Services Emerging Adjacent Market Product

Challenge

A financial services firm began to see some clients shifting to new software based in-house solutions, which allowed customers to complete a range of functions that were traditionally outsourced. Client needed to understand which types of companies would select to use the software and shift to in-house.

Solution

Fletcher/CSI conducted a strategy workshop incorporating role-playing and primary research based competitor profiles to determine how the competitors would act in the marketplace and what strategies they would use to grow market share.

Outcome

The workshop demonstrated that the competitors would focus on selling their software solution rather than the service itself. Client developed strategies to incorporate similar self-service features and reduce the incentive for customers to use the software-based solution.

Medical Supply Generic and New Product Threats

Challenge

A global medical supply company was facing competitive threats in the skin preparation industry. The client anticipated that generics and products with similar formulations would enter the global market within the next five years.

Solution

Fletcher/CSI created briefing books about competitors in the skin preparation industry and facilitated a business strategy game with ~50 employees from all functions. During the business strategy game, teams used several analysis tools to predict competitive strategies and tactics that could be implemented over the next decade.

Outcome

The post-workshop write-up outlined three strategies related to the client’s products, programs, and partnership agreements that the client could execute to prepare for generics and competitor launches, and maintain its market share in the skin preparation industry.

Simulation Software Market Share

Challenge

A provider of simulation software was losing market share and needed to reformulate its strategy to reflect new growth of an existing competitor.

Solution

Fletcher/CSI did a deep dive analysis of the competitor focused around current product offering and life cycle, R&D, pricing, target market, commercial capabilities, and longer-term strategy. Fletcher/CSI then worked with client’s senior management, including CEO, to formulate a new strategy to reflect the changing market landscape.

Outcome

Client was able to craft a new strategy that allowed it to walk away from certain commoditized market segments to focus on high growth areas in which it had a leading product.

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